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Going into space
Did anyone listen to that Radio 5 live phone in about this at the weekend?
I did, and it was rather surprising. Virgin have done test flights and will be sending people up into space early next year. For £250K you get several days training, a leisurely journey up there, a few minutes of weightlessness, 10 or so of nice views then you come back. 600 people so far are on the waiting list.
A Dutch company are also hoping to start sending folks up next year, but their launch is from a stupidly powerful rocket ship that gets you into space in just 4 minutes.
Obviously you have to sign huge forms saying that you realise there's a 63% chance you'll explode or shit your flight suit, but I found it pretty mental that in about 6 months joe public can just pop off into space on their summer hols.
Environmental disaster? A necessary scientific foray allowing us to maybe leave the solar system and set up colonies? A way of speeding up travel (the Dutch team spoke of cutting down transatlantic flights to a couple of hours if / when their flight goes live)? Great fun and exactly what you'd spend £250K on if you had it.?
You are guaranteed that at least one of the 10 space 'tourists' you go up with
will shit themselves on the way up which means your £1/4 million is pretty much the equivalent of going on a bus at night and a dirty family get on
*£1/4 million space adventure
why would they shit themselves?
is that one of the secrets of space travel that no one mentions? That people are always shitting themselves?
Getting blasted into space is surely going to be a bowel testing situation
Im more of a bowel tenser than a blaster
see this is the kind of thing
which led me to believe there are loads of people in space and that there had been since the 60s.
If they only normally have single figures in space, how are they so near to being ready to take loads of tourists up?! I suppose they don't need to build tourist infrastructure if they don't get out though...
I really doubt there are loads of people already in Space, how many do you think there are like?
'loads' to me is about 5,000 and I really think you are wrong to suggest there are 5,000 already waiting up in space for some reason, also if it is since the 60s then they would be at least in their 70s because you have go to be 18+ years to 'beam up' so again why would they have been there so long? Sorry but dont buy it
yeah, I know I'm wrong now
(see http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4430722) there are only 6. I imagined each wealthy country had a few hundred up there at any one time...
So 5,000 people divided by 100 = 50 countries
ANOTHER FLAW! there was no way 50 countries in the 60s.
Hey forget that your are expanding into the galaxies of heaven and our Lord, all you are doing is digging a hole towards the pits of Sodom with those lies.
should've been a c_r thread